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A sub-inspector and constable were suspended on Wednesday after they were held guilty in inquiries. The two were accused of pushing body of a man back into Gomti river after dispute over jurisdiction with neighbouring police station.

The UP unit of Bharatiya Janata Party will be meeting national office-bearers from the state, organisation secretaries from the region and office-bearers on Saturday and Sunday to decide future course of action. Sources told TOI, name of the new state BJP chief is expected to be announced before the two-day national executive meeting on March 19 and 20.

Iconic bookseller Ram Advani, whose store in Hazratganj is flocked by doyens and rookies alike, died here on Wednesday morning. He was 95 and not keeping well since he suffered a fracture in his femur three months ago.

At a time when the opposition is accusing Narendra Modi of creating a cult image of himself and not giving due importance to his cabinet colleagues, the NDA government on Wednesday batted for its ministers and told the Supreme Court that their photos be allowed to be published in government advertisements.

To him, the iconic bookseller Ram Advani was a guide, advisor, confidant and most of all a friend. A student from Mumbai who first came to Lucknow as an intern, Akshay said he saw the city through Advani’s eyes.

Occupying the revolving chair placed right in front of the big glass window that looked out to the Cathedral opposite it, Ram Advani could always be found in his bookstore in Mayfair building. With him gone, the chair would be as empty as the city without him and many will still pass by his store looking for a glimpse of the “connoisseur of good books” the city looked up to.

His departure was as serene as his demeanour. The turbulence that it has left, however, can very well be felt by his friends and extended family of bibliophiles all over the world. After all, he was not a just bookseller. ‘Ram uncle’ was a Cupid for book-lovers. Ram Advani Booksellers the destination for their rendezvous.

The Comptroller & Auditor General of India has unearthed multiple irregularities in the functioning of development authorities and the department of infrastructure and industrial development governing them, in Uttar Pradesh.

State minister Mohammed Azam Khan is in the line of fire once again after Governor Ram Naik on Wednesday sought explanation from Speaker of the UP Assembly Mata Prasad Pandey for allowing Khan to make a “nasty comment” on him. Naik also sought the unedited audio visual of the minister’s speech and proceedings of the House on Tuesday.

A 22-year-old boy was killed when a speeding truck rammed his bike while when he was going to drop his sister to school for taking board exam under Banthara police station at 7am, on Wednesday.

Ram is gone.' The simple message, emailed among his many friends in England this morning, cannot convey the deep sense of loss we feel at his passing.

The National Highway (NH) 24 passing through Amroha in Uttar Pradesh turned into a race course on Wednesday morning as some affluent locals brought traffic to a halt to hold a horse-cart race for betting.

Gomtinagar police found about four persons had recorded events leading to murder of ad agency executive Ritesh Awasthi.Police were now waiting for people to come forward anonymously and share the video.

Five hazy, undated photographs among the belongings of Gumnami Baba-who many think was none other than Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose living in exile-retrieved in Faizabad on Wednesday brought cheers to those who believe that the Azad Hind Fauj founder didn't die in the plane crash. The photographs, though hazy, have a line written on one suggesting they were taken during a birthday celebration on January 23, the birthday of Subhas Chandra Bose.

Five hazy, undated photographs among the belongings of Gumnami Baba-who many think was none other than Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose living in exile-retrieved in Faizabad on Wednesday brought cheers to those who believe that the Azad Hind Fauj founder didn't die in the plane crash. The photographs, though hazy, have a line written on one suggesting they were taken during a birthday celebration on January 23, the birthday of Subhas Chandra Bose.

The quintessential 'Lucknow Wallah', Ram Advani epitomised the best of Lucknow culture manifested in a person.

An independent water sample study conducted by Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Enivorment (Atree) at Ulsoor Lake in the wee hours of Tuesday threw up alarming revelations.

Students of an institute on city outskirts staged protest against "inaction" of the college management after their class-fellow Arif (21)-pushed out of a moving bus of UPSRTC by the conductor-died for lack of medical aid on Tuesday.

Along with his aides, a middle-aged man murdered his elder brother over monetary dispute related to an SUV car in Sheetlapuram colony in Para area under Talkatora police station on Wednesday morning.

The Lucknow bench of the high court has granted three weeks to the Election Commission to file its reply to the plea raised by Krishna Patel , the president of Apna Dal that the commission has virtually derecognized the party by imposing restrictions on it.

Brother-in-law of jailed don Munna Bajrangi was a bright scholar before he ventured into contract and realty business after a police encounter left the latter injured.

Author William Dalrymple writes exclusively for TOI on his memories of Ram Advani

Scores of commuters were stuck near Vidhan Sabha for more than an hour due to a protest by Secondary School Computer Teachers' Association.

Two-year-old Priya was prescribed a kidney transplant after she was diagnosed with a congenital anomaly in her kidneys.